Google Cloud integrated Broadcom’s AppNeta into the hyperscaler’s Cloud Network Insights network observability service, a move that more tightly integrates long-standing work between the two giants.

The AppNeta “first-party” offering provides end-to-end network observability targeted at managing application and network experience, detecting issues, and diagnosing root cause across multicloud, hybrid, and agentic environments. This is described as helping improve mean-time-to-resolution while “isolating the source of the issue in Google Cloud or third-party networks.”

“As organizations increasingly deploy critical agents and applications across complex multicloud and on-premises environments, agent, application, and network observability has never been more crucial,” Rob Enns, VP and GM of cloud networking at Google Cloud, noted in a statement. “By bringing AppNeta’s comprehensive observability technologies into our Cloud Network Insights product, we are equipping customers with the end-to-end insights they need to proactively optimize agent, application, and network experiences and rapidly pinpoint network bottlenecks.”

The Cloud Network Insights service sits next to Google Cloud’s already offered identity and access management (IAM) service, with stated differences tied to Cloud Network Insights operating in a more siloed environment and different phrasing for alarm log severities between the two services.

Broadcom acquired privately held AppNeta in late 2021. The Boston-based firm was known for its software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based network performance monitoring platform that provided IT teams with end-to-end visibility into network performance from the end user's point of view, independent of what network they use to access applications.

Google Cloud adopted AppNeta into its network observability partner ecosystem in mid-2023, alongside other offerings from Catchpoint, Datadog, Kentik, New Relic, Splunk (pre-Cisco acquisition), and Cisco’s ThousandEyes. The AppNeta platform gained updates as part of that ecosystem the following year, which also included new service offerings from Selector and Tigera.

Broadcom is also a long-standing supplier for Google Cloud’s custom Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) silicon line that powers the cloud giant’s operations. That deal has reportedly been extended through 2031, though Google has also reportedly been looking for a Broadcom alternative for several years.